Why Use Subscriptions?
Our subscription payment solution is designed for businesses that need to collect recurring payments on a scheduled basis. It is best suited when:
The payment amount is fixed for each billing cycle.
The Gateway system initiates the recurring charges automatically on your behalf.
You want to simplify billing for both you and your customers.
You want better control over recurring payment collections.
Typical use cases include:
SaaS businesses
Online media (newspapers, magazines)
Advertising platforms
Sports and fitness clubs
Office supply providers
Transport or cleaning services
Alternatively, if you want to charge varying amounts on a recurring basis, you can use Our token payment solution instead. In that case, the merchant system initiates the payments via its own backend. Find more information about that here: Card Tokenisation: Simplifying Secure and Seamless Payments
To successfully process subscription payments, you must obtain your customer's consent to withdraw funds from their account at an agreed time and frequency.
How It Works
Create a Plan in the merchant portal that defines how you want to bill your customers—this includes setting the price, frequency, and other billing details.
Get customer agreement—they need to subscribe to the plan via your website or online interface.
Once the subscription is confirmed, we handle the recurring payments according to the agreed schedule.
Create a New Plan
1. Go to the Plans section in the merchant portal.
2. Click Add plan.
3. Fill in the following required fields:
Plan name: Enter a clear name to identify the plan (e.g.
Gold Plan,Yearly Plan).Cycle price: Enter the amount to be charged for each billing cycle.
Processing account: Select the account that determines the billing currency.
Calendar synchronized: Choose Yes to align billing with calendar periods (start of week, month, or year).
Cycle unit: Choose how often billing occurs (e.g. day, week, month, year).
Cycle length: Set the frequency of billing (e.g. every 1 month, every 3 months).
Billing day of period:
Choose the day (from the start of each cycle) on which the customer is charged.
Applies to all billing cycles.
Defaults to
1, but you can enter any positive number.
Breakoff day:
Define the latest day of the current billing cycle when customers can start a subscription.
Customers who subscribe after this date will be charged in the next cycle.
Example: If Billing day =
05and Breakoff day =20, then:Subscriptions created up to 20.01 are billed on 05.02.
Subscriptions created from 21.01 are billed on 05.03.
Plan end date (optional): Set an end date for the plan or leave it open-ended.
Trial period (optional):
Offer customers a free trial before regular billing starts.
Define it using Trial period length and Trial period unit.
4. Click Save to finish creating the plan.
You can edit an existing plan at any time by clicking Edit.
What’s Next?
Once the plan is created, you’ll need to generate a LinkPay payment link for customers to subscribe.
Find step-by-step instructions here.